“Concussions are a serious concern for soccer players. About 10
million women play soccer in the U.S., compared to our 2 million
football players. You have about five times as many people playing with
this one sport that we don't know a lot about.

Dr. James Noble is a concussion specialist who says that women suffer from concussions at a higher rate than men.

World Cup athletes are testing a new impact concussion-fighting headband,
which helps to understand how head injuries happen. The headband helps
players keep track of how hits are impacting their brains before
concussions take them out of the game completely. The Triax impact
headband is designed to measure how often and how hard a player gets
hit. It will not diagnose a concussion; but instead, it downloads hit
statistics in real time to a computer or mobile app. It measures things
like force and rotation which is analyzed by users, doctors and
researchers. The idea is, how many small hits are too many? In the
future we may have a limit for how many hits a person is allowed to take
in a week or a month or a season. Other new technologies being used are
able to track and protect players wearing protective headbands during
games. Some players are now wearing protective caps, or a headband that
is stronger than steel. (“Head in the Game," reporter Jericka Duncan,
CBS this morning, June 12, 2015)